email from Christine Frater 2.1.2007
middle name added
From Christine Frater
email from Christine Frater 2.1.2007
name changed from Mabel to May Sarah CARVETH
From Christine Frater
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=4024715&I=1&SE=1
Enlist document (KF has a copy)
Title
Frater Alexander Douglas : SERN 114 : POB Narrabri NSW : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F Frater Mr
Series number B2455 Control symbol FRATER A D Contents date range 1914 - 1920Access status Open Location Canberra Barcode 4024715
From Christine Frater
nickname?
From Christine Frater
Nickname? Only seen this name on the Bradley side of the family in Australia (KF)
The online NSW BMD site only goes up to 1905.
Christine has passed on the following notes:
I have been told there was 12 children all up and I have a feeling the names I am missing here are Jean Hay FRATER Elly Hay FRATER Kenneth Hay FRATER Fergus Hay FRATER William Hay FRATER. All carried the second name of HAY
From Christine Frater
The online NSW BMD site only goes up to 1905.
Christine has passed on the following notes:
I have been told there was 12 children all up and I have a feeling the names I am missing here are Jean Hay FRATER Elly Hay FRATER Kenneth Hay FRATER Fergus Hay FRATER William Hay FRATER. All carried the second name of HAY
From Christine Frater
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Birth NSW Gov. online site has her as Penelope M
24812/1893 FRATER PENELOPE M WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRIhttp://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Death NSW Online site
8999/1894 FRATER PENELOPE M WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRI
From Christine Frater
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Birth NSW Online site
5642/1895 FRATER KATHLEEN WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRIhttp://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Death NSW Online site
6465/1899 FRATER KATHLEEN WILLIAM D CATHRINE NARRABRI
From Christine Frater
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Birth NSW BMD online
24574/1904 FRATER GORDON H WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRIhttp://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Death NSW Online site
10216/1904 FRATER GORDON H WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRI
From Christine Frater
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Birth NSW BMD online
24573/1904 FRATER JACK H WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRIhttp://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Death NSW Online site
10213/1904 FRATER JACK H WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRI
From Christine Frater
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/
Birth NSW BMD online
14690/1896 FRATER RONALD H WILLIAM D CATHERINE NARRABRIhttp://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Items_listing.asp?S=2&F=1&O=0&T=I&C=96
Title
Frater Ronald Hay : SERN 1015 : POB Narrabri NSW : POE Liverpool NSW : NOK M Frater Kate
Series number B2455 Control symbol FRATER R H Contents date range 1914 - 1920Access status Open Location Canberra Barcode 4024719
From Christine & Cross-referenced with NSW BMD
4433/1904 FAULKNER SEPTIMUS FRATER MARY I NARRABRI
Mary Isabelle (Isobel?) Jane FRATER
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au : birth reference index:
13710/1871 FRATER MARY J ALEXANDER PENELOPE MURRURUNDIemail from Christine Frater
Mary's birth Cert is as Mary J and her marriage and death Cert shows Mary Isabelle.
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au : birth reference index:
15790/1876 FRATER FERGUS STEWART ALEXANDER PENELOPE MURRURUNDI
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au : marriage reference index:
323/1912 FRATER FERGUS S BEATON BLANCH J M SYDNEYChristine's note give her as Maud?
From Christine Frater
was shot in South Africa after the Boer War
email from Christine Frater 2.1.2007
email from Christine Frater 2.1.2007
The National Library is unable to do any in-depth research on genealogical enquiries, but I think that I can give you some relevant information on this. Barbara "Baynton" was born to John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart on 4 June 1857, and was first married to Alexander (not Andrew or Henry) Frater, son of Alexander Frater and Penelope Hay, at the Tamworth Presbyterian Church on 24 June 1880. Their children were Alexander Hay, Robert Guy and Penelope. It goes on to discuss her divorce from Frater, and marriage (the next day!) to Dr Thomas Baynton.
Born in 1857 at Scone NSW, Australia. Died 1929
Barbara Baynton was the author of Bush Studies (1902) which depicted the reality of the harshness of early Australian bush life which contrasted with the heroic depiction of the rural experience of her contemporary Henry Lawson.
Baynton was born Barbara Jane Lawrence of immigrant Irish parentage. Her eight years as the wife of Scots selector Alexander Frater provided the material for her work Bush Studies. She moved to Sydney with her three children when Frater deserted her in 1887, and began writing articles, poems and journals which were published in The Bulletin newspaper. Her second marriage in 1890 to affluent Dr Thomas Baynton brought her into a literary circle.
Bush Studies was published in London in 1902 during the time of her marriage to the eccentric Lord Headley. Her oeuvre was small, Bush Studies and Human Toll, but she presented a realist picture of working class characters in local settings and Bush Studies has long been regarded as a classic of Australian literature.
For further information: Dixon Miriam, The Real Matilda; Anne Summers, Dammed Whores and God's Police; Lucy Frost, An Affinity with Pain in S Walker Ed Who is She UDP 1983; Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies Introduction and Memoir;thank you for your enquiry about Penelope Gullett and your Frater family research. The National Library is unable to do any in-depth research on genealogical enquiries, but I think that I can give you some relevant information on this. The finding aid that you refer to is for the papers of Sir Henry and Lady Penelope Gullett, which are held in our Manuscripts Collection. However, it appears from the paragraph you quoted that the biographical information on Lady Gullett was taken from a 'Sydney Morning Herald' newspaper obituary on 12 Dec 1960, not from information held in the Gullett papers themselves. I have checked the introduction to a book of Baynton's writings, called "Barbara Baynton", edited by Sally Krimmer & Alan Lawson (published by University of Queensland Press in 1980 as part of the "Portable Authors" series), which gives a fairly detailed account of Baynton's life. It states that she was born to John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart on 4 June 1857, and was first married to Alexander (not Andrew or Henry) Frater, son of Alexander Frater and Penelope Hay, at the Tamworth Presbyterian Church on 24 June 1880. Their children were Alexander Hay, Robert Guy and Penelope. It goes on to discuss her divorce from Frater, and marriage (the next day!) to Dr Thomas Baynton. It also discusses her apparent concealment of her true parentage, date of birth and other details of her early life. Apparently, even her family believed things about her that were later proved incorrect. This might explain the father being named as "Henry" in the obituary. If you cannot locate a copy of the book in the UK and are interested inobtaining a copy of the introduction, you can request a photocopy from our Document Supply Service's "Copies Direct" facility. Details of the service, prices, and an online order form can be found at <http://www.nla.gov.au/dss/individuals_and_business.html> . You would need to specify the pages you need copied - the introduction is contained in pages ix to xxxiii of the book. There is also a portrait of Baynton at page viii, immediately before the Introduction. There is a also a comprehensive biography called "Barbara Baynton: Between Two Worlds", written by a descendant, Penne Hackforth-Jones (who is also an Australian TV & film actress). It was first published by Penguin in 1989, and again by Melbourne University Press in 1995. It would go into much more detail on Baynton's life. If you can't get a copy locally, you might find it on a second hand book site via the internet. Or, you could request an international interlibrary loan through your local public library. You should be able to order copies of the relevant certificates from the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. Their website, with searchable indexes, is at: <http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/> . If you want to get a copy of the obituary, you may be able to track down microfilm copies of the Sydney Morning Herald in major UK libraries or university libraries. Although indexes have been produced for the newspaper that cover the period you need, they do not include personal notices or obituaries. This would mean going through the whole edition to find the article.
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This is the biography detail from the Australian Dictionary Biography
BAYNTON, BARBARA JANE (JANET AINSLEIGH) (1857-1929), writer, was born on 4 June 1857 at Scone, New South Wales, youngest daughter of John Lawrence, carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth, née Ewart, who had arrived in Sydney from Londonderry, Ireland, as bounty immigrants in the Royal Consort on 9 November 1840. However Barbara later alleged that her father was Captain Robert Lawrence Kilpatrick of the Bengal Light Cavalry. By 1866 the Lawrences had moved to Murrurundi. Educated at home, Barbara enjoyed the works of Dickens and the Russian novelists; she became a governess with the Fraters at Merrylong Park, south of Quirindi. On 24 June 1880 at Tamworth Presbyterian Church she married Alexander Frater junior, a selector. Next year they moved to the Coonamble district, where she bore two sons and a daughter.In 1887 Frater ran off with Sarah Glover, a servant in his household; Barbara took her children to Sydney, instituted divorce proceedings and was granted a decree absolute on 4 March 1890. Next day at St Philip's Church of England, claiming to be a widow, she married a 70-year-old widower Thomas Baynton, who was a retired surgeon with literary and academic friends who visited his home at Woollahra. Financially secure, Barbara began to add to her husband's collection of Georgian silver and antiques. Robust and vigorous, overflowing with vitality, she also began to write short stories, verse and articles for the Bulletin. Her first story, 'The Tramp', was published in December 1896. A. G. Stephens became a close friend.
After failing to find a publisher in Sydney for her collection of six short stories, in 1902 Barbara Baynton visited London where, with the help of Edward Garnett, the critic, Bush Studies was published that year by Duckworth & Co. She did not romanticize bush life and showed a savage revulsion against its loneliness and harshness. 'A Dreamer', 'The Chosen Vessel', 'Scrammy 'and' and 'Squeaker's Mate' are chilling tales of terror and nightmare, built up detail by detail rather than by atmosphere and the supernatural. Stephens reviewed Bush Studies in the Bulletin, 14 February 1903: 'So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language'. To Vance Palmer, 'Bush Church' and 'Billy Skywonkie' had 'a robust masculine humour'. Writing powerfully, with economy of style, Baynton used certain symbolic and recurrent themes, notably the strong maternal instinct, the loyalty of the dog, the isolation of the bush and a bitter insistence on man's brutality to woman, which gave unity to the stories and lifted them above the plane of simple realism.
In 1903 Barbara Baynton returned to Sydney where her husband died on 10 June 1904, leaving her his whole estate, valued for probate at £3871. She began investing on the Stock Exchange, particulary in the Law Book Co. of Australasia Ltd of which she later became chairman of directors. An astute businesswoman, she also bought and sold antiques and started her fine collection of black opals from Lightning Ridge. She contributed occasional forceful articles to the Sydney Morning Herald on the 'Indignity of Domestic Service' and other women's issues. She spent the next years between Australia and London, where she lived 'in a succession of increasingly fine houses', surrounded by Chinese lacquer, Chippendale furniture, ornate porcelain and silver. Something of a celebrity in literary circles, she entertained lavishly and knew many famous people. She found time to write her only novel, Human Toll (London, 1907) which, despite its melodrama and 'unsure management of structure', included in A. A. Phillips's opinion 'some of her most characteristic writing … and maturer insights into human behaviour'. During World War I she opened her house in Connaught Square to British and Australian soldiers, and in 1917 published Cobbers, a reissue of Bush Studies with two new stories, including 'Trooper Jim Tasman'.
On 11 February 1921 Barbara Baynton married Rowland George Alanson-Winn, fifth baron Headley, president of the Society of Engineers and of the Muslim Society in England, and a sportsman. Next year he became bankrupt. Outraged when he refused the throne of Albania, she returned to Melbourne in a huff. She built a house at Toorak, near her daughter Penelope who had married (Sir) Henry Gullett in 1912, and furnished it with Queen Anne and Georgian pieces. Bored with it, she sold its contents with such success that she returned to England and brought back another shipload of antiques. Dark, with heavily lidded, watchful eyes, she loved jewellery, especially opals and pearls, and beautiful clothes. With considerable charm, 'a devastating wit', a caustic tongue and a domineering personality, she had the ability to amuse and impress people. W. M. Hughes found her 'a remarkable woman'.
Lady Headley died of cerebral thrombosis at her home at Toorak on 28 May 1929 and was cremated. Her estate was sworn for probate at £160,621. She was survived by her first and third husbands and by two sons and a daughter of her first marriage; a son by her second husband had died in infancy. Robert Guy Frater, her second son, inherited her adventurous spirit: he went to the South African War at 15, raised soldiers for a Chinese warlord, served in the Archduke Ferdinand's bodyguard at Sarajevo and, with his brother, fought with the British Army in World War I. Her portrait by John Longstaff is held by the Frater family.
Select BibliographyS. Krimmer, ‘New light on Barbara Baynton’, Australian Literary Studies, Oct 1976, and for bibliography; Supreme Court, W. J. Windeyer divorce note books, 1889 (State Records New South Wales); private information. More on the resources
Print Publication Details: 'Baynton, Barbara Jane (1857 - 1929)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 222-223.
Born in 1857 at Scone NSW, Australia. Died 1929
Barbara Baynton was the author of Bush Studies (1902) which depicted the reality of the harshness of early Australian bush life which contrasted with the heroic depiction of the rural experience of her contemporary Henry Lawson.
Baynton was born Barbara Jane Lawrence of immigrant Irish parentage. Her eight years as the wife of Scots selector Alexander Frater provided the material for her work Bush Studies. She moved to Sydney with her three children when Frater deserted her in 1887, and began writing articles, poems and journals which were published in The Bulletin newspaper. Her second marriage in 1890 to affluent Dr Thomas Baynton brought her into a literary circle.
Bush Studies was published in London in 1902 during the time of her marriage to the eccentric Lord Headley. Her oeuvre was small, Bush Studies and Human Toll, but she presented a realist picture of working class characters in local settings and Bush Studies has long been regarded as a classic of Australian literature.
For further information: Dixon Miriam, The Real Matilda; Anne Summers, Dammed Whores and God's Police; Lucy Frost, An Affinity with Pain in S Walker Ed Who is She UDP 1983; Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies Introduction and Memoir;thank you for your enquiry about Penelope Gullett and your Frater family research. The National Library is unable to do any in-depth research on genealogical enquiries, but I think that I can give you some relevant information on this. The finding aid that you refer to is for the papers of Sir Henry and Lady Penelope Gullett, which are held in our Manuscripts Collection. However, it appears from the paragraph you quoted that the biographical information on Lady Gullett was taken from a 'Sydney Morning Herald' newspaper obituary on 12 Dec 1960, not from information held in the Gullett papers themselves. I have checked the introduction to a book of Baynton's writings, called "Barbara Baynton", edited by Sally Krimmer & Alan Lawson (published by University of Queensland Press in 1980 as part of the "Portable Authors" series), which gives a fairly detailed account of Baynton's life. It states that she was born to John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart on 4 June 1857, and was first married to Alexander (not Andrew or Henry) Frater, son of Alexander Frater and Penelope Hay, at the Tamworth Presbyterian Church on 24 June 1880. Their children were Alexander Hay, Robert Guy and Penelope. It goes on to discuss her divorce from Frater, and marriage (the next day!) to Dr Thomas Baynton. It also discusses her apparent concealment of her true parentage, date of birth and other details of her early life. Apparently, even her family believed things about her that were later proved incorrect. This might explain the father being named as "Henry" in the obituary. If you cannot locate a copy of the book in the UK and are interested inobtaining a copy of the introduction, you can request a photocopy from our Document Supply Service's "Copies Direct" facility. Details of the service, prices, and an online order form can be found at <http://www.nla.gov.au/dss/individuals_and_business.html> . You would need to specify the pages you need copied - the introduction is contained in pages ix to xxxiii of the book. There is also a portrait of Baynton at page viii, immediately before the Introduction. There is a also a comprehensive biography called "Barbara Baynton: Between Two Worlds", written by a descendant, Penne Hackforth-Jones (who is also an Australian TV & film actress). It was first published by Penguin in 1989, and again by Melbourne University Press in 1995. It would go into much more detail on Baynton's life. If you can't get a copy locally, you might find it on a second hand book site via the internet. Or, you could request an international interlibrary loan through your local public library. You should be able to order copies of the relevant certificates from the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. Their website, with searchable indexes, is at: <http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/> . If you want to get a copy of the obituary, you may be able to track down microfilm copies of the Sydney Morning Herald in major UK libraries or university libraries. Although indexes have been produced for the newspaper that cover the period you need, they do not include personal notices or obituaries. This would mean going through the whole edition to find the article.
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This is the biography detail from the Australian Dictionary Biography
BAYNTON, BARBARA JANE (JANET AINSLEIGH) (1857-1929), writer, was born on 4 June 1857 at Scone, New South Wales, youngest daughter of John Lawrence, carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth, née Ewart, who had arrived in Sydney from Londonderry, Ireland, as bounty immigrants in the Royal Consort on 9 November 1840. However Barbara later alleged that her father was Captain Robert Lawrence Kilpatrick of the Bengal Light Cavalry. By 1866 the Lawrences had moved to Murrurundi. Educated at home, Barbara enjoyed the works of Dickens and the Russian novelists; she became a governess with the Fraters at Merrylong Park, south of Quirindi. On 24 June 1880 at Tamworth Presbyterian Church she married Alexander Frater junior, a selector. Next year they moved to the Coonamble district, where she bore two sons and a daughter.In 1887 Frater ran off with Sarah Glover, a servant in his household; Barbara took her children to Sydney, instituted divorce proceedings and was granted a decree absolute on 4 March 1890. Next day at St Philip's Church of England, claiming to be a widow, she married a 70-year-old widower Thomas Baynton, who was a retired surgeon with literary and academic friends who visited his home at Woollahra. Financially secure, Barbara began to add to her husband's collection of Georgian silver and antiques. Robust and vigorous, overflowing with vitality, she also began to write short stories, verse and articles for the Bulletin. Her first story, 'The Tramp', was published in December 1896. A. G. Stephens became a close friend.
After failing to find a publisher in Sydney for her collection of six short stories, in 1902 Barbara Baynton visited London where, with the help of Edward Garnett, the critic, Bush Studies was published that year by Duckworth & Co. She did not romanticize bush life and showed a savage revulsion against its loneliness and harshness. 'A Dreamer', 'The Chosen Vessel', 'Scrammy 'and' and 'Squeaker's Mate' are chilling tales of terror and nightmare, built up detail by detail rather than by atmosphere and the supernatural. Stephens reviewed Bush Studies in the Bulletin, 14 February 1903: 'So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language'. To Vance Palmer, 'Bush Church' and 'Billy Skywonkie' had 'a robust masculine humour'. Writing powerfully, with economy of style, Baynton used certain symbolic and recurrent themes, notably the strong maternal instinct, the loyalty of the dog, the isolation of the bush and a bitter insistence on man's brutality to woman, which gave unity to the stories and lifted them above the plane of simple realism.
In 1903 Barbara Baynton returned to Sydney where her husband died on 10 June 1904, leaving her his whole estate, valued for probate at £3871. She began investing on the Stock Exchange, particulary in the Law Book Co. of Australasia Ltd of which she later became chairman of directors. An astute businesswoman, she also bought and sold antiques and started her fine collection of black opals from Lightning Ridge. She contributed occasional forceful articles to the Sydney Morning Herald on the 'Indignity of Domestic Service' and other women's issues. She spent the next years between Australia and London, where she lived 'in a succession of increasingly fine houses', surrounded by Chinese lacquer, Chippendale furniture, ornate porcelain and silver. Something of a celebrity in literary circles, she entertained lavishly and knew many famous people. She found time to write her only novel, Human Toll (London, 1907) which, despite its melodrama and 'unsure management of structure', included in A. A. Phillips's opinion 'some of her most characteristic writing … and maturer insights into human behaviour'. During World War I she opened her house in Connaught Square to British and Australian soldiers, and in 1917 published Cobbers, a reissue of Bush Studies with two new stories, including 'Trooper Jim Tasman'.
On 11 February 1921 Barbara Baynton married Rowland George Alanson-Winn, fifth baron Headley, president of the Society of Engineers and of the Muslim Society in England, and a sportsman. Next year he became bankrupt. Outraged when he refused the throne of Albania, she returned to Melbourne in a huff. She built a house at Toorak, near her daughter Penelope who had married (Sir) Henry Gullett in 1912, and furnished it with Queen Anne and Georgian pieces. Bored with it, she sold its contents with such success that she returned to England and brought back another shipload of antiques. Dark, with heavily lidded, watchful eyes, she loved jewellery, especially opals and pearls, and beautiful clothes. With considerable charm, 'a devastating wit', a caustic tongue and a domineering personality, she had the ability to amuse and impress people. W. M. Hughes found her 'a remarkable woman'.
Lady Headley died of cerebral thrombosis at her home at Toorak on 28 May 1929 and was cremated. Her estate was sworn for probate at £160,621. She was survived by her first and third husbands and by two sons and a daughter of her first marriage; a son by her second husband had died in infancy. Robert Guy Frater, her second son, inherited her adventurous spirit: he went to the South African War at 15, raised soldiers for a Chinese warlord, served in the Archduke Ferdinand's bodyguard at Sarajevo and, with his brother, fought with the British Army in World War I. Her portrait by John Longstaff is held by the Frater family.
Select BibliographyS. Krimmer, ‘New light on Barbara Baynton’, Australian Literary Studies, Oct 1976, and for bibliography; Supreme Court, W. J. Windeyer divorce note books, 1889 (State Records New South Wales); private information. More on the resources
Print Publication Details: 'Baynton, Barbara Jane (1857 - 1929)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 222-223.
From Karen Frater
AGED 22 YEARS, NATIVE PLACE LONDONDERRY CO DERRY IRELAND,
OCCUPATIONFARMER,
FATHER JOHN LAWRENCE MOTHER CHARLOTTEELIZA LAWRENCE NEE EWART-
AGED 20 YEARS OCCUPATION HOUSEKEEPER, NATIVE PLACE LONDONDERRY CO
DERRYIRELAND
FATHER DAVID EWART MOTHER ELIZA.ARRIVED IN SYDNEY 9TH NOVEMBER 1840 ABOARD THE "ROYAL CONSORT"
From Karen Frater
John Lawrence
AGED 22 YEARS, NATIVE PLACE LONDONDERRY CO DERRY IRELAND,
OCCUPATIONFARMER,
FATHER JOHN LAWRENCE MOTHER CHARLOTTEELIZA LAWRENCE NEE EWART-
AGED 20 YEARS OCCUPATION HOUSEKEEPER, NATIVE PLACE LONDONDERRY CO
DERRYIRELAND
FATHER DAVID EWART MOTHER ELIZA.ARRIVED IN SYDNEY 9TH NOVEMBER 1840 ABOARD THE "ROYAL CONSORT"
From Karen Frater, Australia
PHILLIP GLOVER - AGED 19 ,OCCUPATION FARM LABOURER, RELIGON CHURCH
OFENGLAND
NATIVE PLACE CHEDWORTH GLOUCESTSHIRE.
PARENTS SIMON AND HARRIETT GLOVER.- MOTHER DEAD , FATHER LIVING
INCHEDWORTHWILLIAM GLOVER AGED 22- DETAILS AS ABOVE
ARRIVED IN SYDNEY IN 1855 ABOARD THE "SULTANA"
From Karen Frater, Australia
Closer and Soldier Settlement Transfer Files
Previous System Number File/Transfer Number Surname Firstname Residence of Owner Settlement Purchase Number Settlement Purchase Area Farm Number Parish County Remarks
[10/26013B] 17/06690 FRATER Walter Henry Glengower near Narrabri 1911.40 Tibbereenah 72 Milner White
From Christine Frater 2.1.2007
From Christine Frater
died at 1 year old